Concert preview: Adam Ant's music survives through personal struggles

6:55 PM,
Sep. 4, 2013

Adam Ant

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Sarah Torribio
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In Adam Ant's 1982 hit "Friend or Foe," he famously threw down the gauntlet to listeners, saying, "I want those who get to know me to become admirers or my enemies."

Over the years, the press has been both to him.

It has praised the musician as he released a dizzying series of chart-topping hits in the early 1980s and reasserted his relevance with the 1996 hit "Wonderful." And it has mercilessly publicized his struggle with bipolar disorder, which culminated in a series of arrests and hospitalizations for mental health treatment in the early 2000s. ...